November 28, 2011

SandBox Comments: Summit County Citizens Voice "Climate: Large scale carbon-capture tried in Illinois"

This is fascinating, a must read.  Off the Summit County Citizens Voice.

SUMMIT COUNTY — Carbon dioxide byproducts from an Archer Daniels Midland Company ethanol plant will be injected 7,000 feet deep into an Illinois sandstone formation in the first million-ton carbon sequestration demonstration in the U.S.

Although geo-engineering is not without controversy, top administration officials say geologic storage of CO2 could be an important part of climate mitigation strategies...."
(Bob Berwyn)

(Read more?  Click title and link.  Comment to discuss)
"Truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."

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